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March 2004 - Posts

My first whitepaper "Testing for Accessibility" has been published on MSDN!
My first blog entry on Testing for Accessibility has been published on MSDN. Two 9 out of 9's so far... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/accessibility_testing.asp Read More...
Day 4 at CSUN – The Dénouement and its Aftermath
Friday was the last full day of the CSUN conference. Although my first meeting wasn’t until 10am, implying that I could sleep for the longest consecutive period of time since I arrived in LA, the cold I had been fighting for weeks got the best of Read More...
Day 3 at CSUN – Sara Appreciation Day
With the presentation behind me, I looked forward to celebrating my birthday. Starting off the day, I attended a continental breakfast hosted by Freedom Scientific. After the breakfast, I attended a few sessions by Sun Microsystems. Thursday was Sun’s Read More...
Day 2 – CSUN Presentation Day - Accessibility in Visual Studio ("Whidbey") and ASP.NET
Sorry to keep ya’ll in suspense how the presentation went. I didn’t get back to my hotel room until after midnight last night. The bottom line: the presentation rocked. Although the alarm clock is set for 7:30am, I’m wide awake (not Read More...
References from CSUN Presentation "Accessibility in Visual Studio ("Whidbey") and ASP.NET"
Microsoft Accessibility http://www.microsoft.com/enable Accessibility Information for Developers http://msdn.microsoft.com/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28000544 Microsoft Visual Studio Homepage http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio FIX: DataGrid Made Compliant Read More...
Day 1 at CSUN – The sign language interpreters do not exist. The sign language interpreters do not exist.
During my rehearsal presentation, I stopped dead in my tracks when I said “The Visual Studio Environment...” I had this mental image of the sign language interpreters signing something like “the Visual Studio rainforest.” After Read More...
Day 0 at CSUN - Never wear a halo t-shirt at the airport
The security guy screening my bags keeps looking at me, as if he were trying to figure me out. I'm thinking, “there's just a camera, a mouse, and a cell phone in the bag. Why is he looking at me?” Finally, he decides to let me know what is Read More...
Preparing for CSUN
I’ve finished rehearsing my demos for today. It seems that there’s always one more little tweak to do to a demo before the presentation. But for tonight, my demos are completed. Weather.com is reporting temperatures in the low 70s this week Read More...
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